Example sentences of "[prep] go [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was like going back a hundred years .
2 Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again .
3 At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come .
4 The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) .
5 She was supposed to do this , unless it was raining , by going out the front door and down the area steps , rather than through her grandmother 's bedroom .
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